“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.” PeopleNeedsShouldWritingBelieveLooksPlayCharacterWould BeAbleI BelieveSocialChallengesLinesViewsClassCrossesMalesGenderPoint Of ViewGood WritersSocial ClassChameleon Author:Marisha Pessl
“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.” ShouldFirstsSocialSecurityBenefitsGainsIncreaseImpactWorkersIncomeConsumersTypicalSocial SecurityInflationAmerican Workers Author:Steven Rattner
“Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.” PeopleShouldMindHelpingTodayLawSocialGroupsGayProtectPaperDiscriminationVulnerableSocial ChangeGay PeopleFramedRacial DiscriminationBarometer Author:Bayard Rustin
“The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.” ShouldPoliticalSocialWhiteProudDiseaseDaily LifeWhite SupremacyAttemptingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessSupremacyImpositionContrition Author:Robert Agostinelli
“Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.” ThinkingWayShouldJobsSocialCompanyBlindResponsePostsResumes Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.” ShouldFirstsBelieveForceI BelieveSocialCenturyMajorsConcernTwentiesEnvironmentalCorporationsVery Strong Author:Bill Ford
“Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.” ShouldEndsLawSocialRelationRegardObedienceLaws Of NatureCradleTombsSocial Relations Author:Hosea Ballou
“Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.” ShouldAbleSpiritualIndividualSocialDestinyAchieveMaterialsConcernConcernedHarmonyBlindProsperityObligationWelfareSocial Obligation Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.” ShouldBelieveLongI BelieveSocialTermConditionsSecurityAccountsWorkersLong TermSocial SecurityDeficitReduction Author:Cliff Stearns
“We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.” IfsShouldDreamRealityFightingLeftStrongSocialLibertyLeaderVisionMovementCivilizationStrongerFoundationRemainsGreenActivePursuitAppropriateAgendasSustainabilityCivil LibertiesMalta Author:Joseph Muscat
“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.” IfsMenShouldBookUseRememberTurnsEvilSocialPracticeEvery ManNewspapersMagazinesSpeakersTruthfulPlatformsExposureRelentlessSocial LifeHailSeverityBenefactors Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.” WayShouldHumansPoliticalOrderSocialDemocracyRightsEconomicUnderstoodEnvironmentalHuman RightsAbsenceBroadsThreatenedUnjustDegradationEnvironmental Degradation Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
“While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.” ShouldMadeSocialSpaceMediaNewsEmbraceSocial MediaNewspapersStride Author:Amy Jo Martin